Stock-car



('Hodel.) W. B.-PALME-R.

Stock' Car. No. 236,837. Patented Jan. 18, I881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM B. PALMER, OF GOSHEN, INDIANA.

STOCK-CA R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,837, dated January 18, 1881.

Application filed October 23, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM B. PALMER, of Goshen, in the countyof Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Cattle-Oars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of thefsame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specipipe, 0, with the tender, or' with any waterfication,and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon. A

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinal vertical section of this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same.

This invention relates to cars for the transportation of stock.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter specified.

' In the annexed drawings, A is a car for stock, having side openings, at (1. Within the car and running lengthwise thereof immediately under said openings are tubes B, having at suitable distances buckets b projecting upward. The tubes in the various cars of a train are connected upon each side by hose-connection, and one car is connected by a flexible tank when it is desired to have a flow of wa' ter through said flexible pipe, tubes, and connections to buckets b to water stock. By this construction all the animals in the whole, train can be watered at once, and the buckets can be readily emptied by loosening one of the hose-connections.

In supplying the tubes and buckets the head is higher than the buckets, and the rear end of the tube in the last car must be made tight.

The buckets b b have a slant to the outside, so as not to have the water slop over on the floor of the car.

Through openings a a the stock can be fed.

At proper intervals along the sides of the car are series of elongated loops D, attached to which, and capable of playing up and down thereon, are fastenings E. By making said fastenin gs loose upon loops D they are adapted for use whether the cattle are standing or lying down, and at the same time they are not long enough to allow the stock to disturb one another.

Just in front of the buckets is arranged a rack, F, consisting of top and bottom rails F F and "ertical rods f f, arranged in pairs, so as to form a large opening in front of each bucket, the object of which rack is to keep the cattle steady at their fastenin gs D E and prevent them from disturbing each other at their feed.

Along the top and bottom at proper intervals are fastened loops H, there being one or more rows of loops in each car. A strong rope, I, is run through the loops of each row from top to bottom, forming partitions through the car, and making stalls which can be readily removed when required; or a short piece of rope with snap-hooks at each end can be fastened from one loop to the opposite one.

What I claim is-- 1. 'The elongated loops D and fastenings E, in combination with rack F, consisting of top and bottom rails F and rods f extending from one to the other. i

2. The loops H, arranged at top and bottom of the car, in combination with the rope I, forming stalls for transportation of stock.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM B. PALMER.

Witnesses:

O. B. TIBBETTS, W. E. GROTNER. 

